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Author
Publisher
Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Americans are fighting back against police violence, calling for police departments to be reformed and, in some cases, abolished. Politicians at local, state, and national levels have responded in a variety of ways to these calls to action. POLITICS AND CIVIL UNREST IN MODERN AMERICA explores the government's response to protests and policies introduced by legislators to combat police violence. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. Lim's deeply researched -- and deeply personal -- account casts often startling new light on key moments: the British takeover in 1842, the negotiations leading to its 'return' to China in 1997, the current protests, and the future Beijing seeks to impose. Throughout, it is populated...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the rural heartland of Syria's countryside, the bloody uprising against President Bashar Al Assad has taken a terrifying turn. In this highly charged documentary, award-winning filmmaker Olly Lambert lives on both sides of Syria's sectarian frontline, witnessing the devastating effect of a religious feud that, regardless of the outcome of the war, is shaping Syria's future.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Civil rights. Women's rights. Workers' rights. Gay rights. The fight for social justice. Learn how the protest movements of the 1960s came to be, how they evolved, and what and how people are protesting now, in the age of social media." --Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of the First World War. This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of history's most destructive wars and then were hounded by the government when they refused to back down. In the riveting War Against War, Michael Kazin brings us into the ranks of the largest, most diverse, and most sophisticated peace coalition up to that...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost-the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia's oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries-the crew of Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise-decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic. Thrown...
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